Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns: Understanding the Differences, Lecture notes of Grammar and Composition

Download Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns: Understanding the Differences and more Lecture notes Grammar and Composition in PDF only on Docsity! Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns A reflexive pronoun ends with –self and –selves and refers to the subject of the sentence. In a sentence with a reflexive pronoun, the action of the verb returns to the subject. Participants push themselves to the limits. I saw myself in my dreams. An intensive pronoun uses a reflexive pronoun to add emphasis to the subject of the sentence. You’ll usually find the intensive pronoun right after the noun or pronoun it’s modifying, but not necessarily. Did you yourself make the cake? I myself am tired of doing homework. My sister made the bread herself. The way to identify an intensive pronoun is to remove it from the sentence; if it’s an intensive pronoun, the sentence will still make sense. If the sentence no longer makes sense, it’s a reflexive pronoun. Reflexive & Intensive Examples:  Alison still does not trust herself. o If you remove the pronoun, the sentence does not make sense. Therefore, herself is a reflexive pronoun.  Did you yourself make the cake? o If you remove the pronoun yourself, the sentence still makes sense. Therefore, yourself is an intensive pronoun. Subject Reflexive/Intensive Pronoun I myself you yourself he himself she herself it itself we ourselves you (plural) yourselves they themselves